Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt is Arizona’s ace in the hole. Color Terry Bradshaw red, for he has seen the light, brother. After ragging on the Cardinals all year, the shiny-domed former Super Bowl MVP announced his conversion on the FOX NFL Sunday postgame show following Arizona’s shocking dismantling of…
A mid-January game against the Minnesota Timberwolves is no big D, right? The playoffs-bound Phoenix Suns will ring up these bottom-feeding fools without stainin’ their sweats, yo? Wrong on both counts. And that “playoff-bound” part is dicey, in and of itself. Everyone but the Suns seems to realize that every…
Yeah, it was a terrible call. In the last seconds of regulation against Denver with the score tied 103-103, Grant Hill drove toward the basket and was tripped by Nuggets forward Dahntay Jones. Hill hit the hardwood. Tripped, and no call by head referee Dick Bavetta (pictured, the ref who…
Senatorial differences: John McCain opposes giving bailout funds to the guy who stomped him in the presidential election. But Jon Kyl, who holds no such bias, says it’s “too risky” to hold back on the funds. Another shocking case of child abuse: Police say a Valley couple forced their 9-year-old daughter to…
Seems like Michelle D. just can’t stay away from the fray.Could it be? Is she back? And if so, will she finally let me paint her toenails as we debate the finer points of U.S. immigration policy? I’m talking about the former head of the now defunct Mothers Against Illegal…
We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Valley Fever: Greg Stanton to Leave Phoenix City Council; Headed to AG’s…
This just in: Greg Stanton, a Phoenix city councilman for eight years, will be resigning his seat to work for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. The news has generated significant buzz, not just because of the game of musical chairs it could trigger at City Hall. No, insiders believe Stanton is…
The latest Dennis Gilman video is a doozy. It covers the MCSO sweep in the west Valley, and shows some of the ski-masked deputies involved. Having MCSO deputies pulling over cars for traffic stops in black masks like this is reminiscent of some South American dictatorship. It’s meant to terrorize…
If there’s one team that’s benefited the most this season from a trade, it’s the Denver Nuggets. On November 3, 2008, nine-time NBA All-Star guard Allen Iverson was dealt to the Detroit Pistons for guard Chauncey Billups (pictured), forward Antonio McDyess, and center Cheikh Samb. (McDyess never suited up in…
Ask not what your state can do for you: Arizona just keep’s digging deeper into a financial black hole. Janet Napolitano’s headed for an “easy” confirmation, despite the fact that she’s been soft on illegal immigration, a problem she’ll be charged to take care of as Homeland Security secretary. Doctors…
What is it with César Chávez? Recently in Dallas, we’ve gone through three attempts to name streets after Mr. Chávez. In one instance, the plan was to remove the name of two brothers who were city founders from a street named after them and rename the street César Chávez Avenue…
KINGS OF CORRUPTION We really do live in a police state: Another great article by Sarah Fenske. Ah, the tangled webs we weave. The Don Stapley indictments are finally beginning to make sense, in a nonsensical kind of way. Funny (not really) how everything’s about political payback. If Stapley had…
In reporting this series, New Times staff writer Paul Rubin spent months at the Maricopa County Juvenile Court in downtown Phoenix. He focused on the work of two Superior Court judges, Michael Kemp and Ronald Reinstein, and on their delinquency and dependency calendars, respectively. Delinquency court judges hear cases about…
SHERIFF SPENDTHRIFT Even if you’re one of those gap-toothed hillbillies who hate illegal immigrants and want nothing more than Arizona’s population to be as pale as Anderson Cooper’s ass, you have to admit that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest operation in the West Valley was a colossal waste of cash. Headquartered…
Last year, Kym Pasqualini’s nonprofit agency ran out of money. For 15 years, the National Center for Missing Adults helped track the thousands of adults who go missing in this country every year — and did its best to reconnect them with their families. The agency operated on roughly $1…
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“Frankie the Snitch” groveling before the Board of Supervisors in September. I had a funny feeling the MCSO might block yours truly if I headed down to the love-in between Guadalupe Mayor Frankie Montiel and Joe Arpaio today at the Wells Fargo Building, where Joe has his high-rent offices. But, hey,…
Gannett employees, including those at the Arizona Republic and Channel 12 News (KPNX), are being forced to take a mandatory week of unpaid leave between now and March in an effort to cut costs and avoid layoffs. It’s the latest piece of bad news in an industry that’s had more…
Is photo enforcement on Arizona’s highways and freeways coming to an end? On the heels of the launch of a citizens initiative to ban the cameras that have been multiplying like coyotes on local streets, a group of state lawmakers has now introduced a bill that would do the same…
If you try to do a “drive by” shooting of something as majestic as the Grand Canyon and expect to get a picture anyone else will want to look at, “I think you’ll fail,” says photographer-extraordinaire Jack Dykinga. Shutterbugs take note: When it comes to the state’s most famous hole, Dykinga (that’s his self-portrait at…
I really hate being right in this town. But here in a brief e-mail announcement from the MCSO is the outcome of what I wrote about on January 7 in the blog post “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” and in last week’s Bird item “Frankie the Snitch.” Specifically, both articles…
These pics were sent to me by a photo enforcement foe. Does this mean we have a mole on the inside? Heh, could be… Everything looks normal from the rear. But from the front, hey, what’s that on the dash? Looks like someone has good taste in reading material…
